ANDREA BoWERS
Born 1965, Wilmington, OH MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, 1992 BFA, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 1987 Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2021 TBA, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming) Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA (forthcoming)
2020 Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming) Grief and Hope, Abteiberg Museum, Mönchengladbach, Germany Think of Our Future, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
2019 Light and Gravity, Weserburg Museum, Bremen, Germany Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2018 Open Secret, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany Disrupting and Resisting, kauffman repetto, Milan, Italy
2017 Andrea Bowers and Marcos Erre, Westmont Ridley Tree Museum, Santa Barbara, CA Womxn Workers of the World Unite! CAC– Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH Hammer Projects: Andrea Bowers, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2016 Triumph of Labor, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles The United States v. Tim DeChristopher, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Sanctuary, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York Whose Feminism Is It Anyway? Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
2015 Self-Determination, kaufmann repetto, Milan
2014 In Situ 1- Andrea Bowers, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris Andrea Bowers: #sweetjane, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
2013 Cultivating the Courage to Sin, Capitain Petzel Gallery, Berlin Transformer Display For Community Fundraising: Phase 4. Collaboration with Olga Koumoundouros, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2012 Help the Work Along, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles
2011 The New Women’s Survival Guide, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Ni Una Muerte Mas, curated by Anna Karestsi, Project Room, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens Transformer Display of Community Information and Activation, Collaboration with Olga Koumoundouros, Art Public, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Transformer Display For Community Fundraising: Version 2, Collaboration with Olga Koumoundouros, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2010 The Political Landscape, Susan Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles
2009 Mercy Mercy Me, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York An Eloquent Woman, Praz-Devallade, Paris Your Donations Do Our Work: Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, CA
2008 Sanctuary, Van Horn, Düsseldorf, Germany The Weight of Relevance, ZKM/Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
2007 The Weight of Relevance, The Power Plant, Toronto, curated by Gregory Burke The Weight of Relevance, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles The Weight of Relevance, Wiener Secession, Vienna
2006 Nothing is Neutral: Andrea Bowers, curated by Eungie Joo, REDCAT, Los Angeles (traveling to: ArtPace, San Antonio, TX; Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO Vows, Halle für Kunst, e. V., Lüneburg, Germany) Eulogies to One and Another, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris Your Whole Fucking Culture Alienates Me, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin Letters to an Army of Three, curated by Mary Leclère Core Program, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Andrea Bowers: All the World is Waiting for You, curated by Andrea Inselmann, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2005 Culture of Choice, Van Horn, Düsseldorf, Germany
2004 Soft Blockades Part 2, Magazin 4, Voralberger Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria Soft Blockades, Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Training, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Magical Politics, Chouakri Brahms, Berlin, Germany
2002 Virtual Arena, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York (catalogue) From Mouth to Ear, Goldman Tevis, Los Angeles, CA Box with Dance of Its Own Making, Chouakri Brahms, Berlin, Germany
2001 Democracy’s Body – Dance Dance Revolution, Art 32 Basel, Art Statements, Basel, presented by Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Intimate Strangers, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
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I Need a Hero, Institute of Visual Arts (INOVA), University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI One and the Same Body, ARCO Project Room, Madrid, Spain
1999 Moving Equilibrium, Sara Meltzer’s on view, New York, NY
1998 Spectacular Appearances, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
1997 Spectacular Appearances in the Food Court, a project with the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica Place Mall, Santa Monica, CA Spanish Box, Santa Monica, CA
1994 Damaged Goods, Bliss, Pasadena, CA
1993 FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
Group Exhibitions
2021 We Are Here, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA
2020 Drawing 2020, Gladstone Gallery, NY What is Nature?, Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany Permanent Collection, National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens, Greece Don’t Let This Be Easy, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Thiebaud Centennial Exhibition, Manetti Shrem Museum, UC Davis, Davis, CA Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH F as in Frank, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH Citizenship, MCA Denver, Denver, CO Time for Outrage! Artistic Positions in Times of Social Change, Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA Conversational Spirits, Jessica Silverman , San Francisco, CA Vielmetter 20 year Anniversary, Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA The Condition of Being Addressable, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Vent’anni – Twenty Years, Kaufmann Repetto Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Inaugural Exhibition, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA F-Bomb, Daniel Arts Center, Bard College, NY In Plain Sight, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA The Warmth of Other Suns, The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. United by Aids, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland How the Light Gets In, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Damn! The Defiant, Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY
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STORIES: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA Queer California: Untold Stories, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
2018 The Street. Where The World Is Made, MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY West by Midwest, MCA Chicago, IL After Posada: Revolution, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX The Un-Heroic Act. Representations of Rape in Contemporary Women’s Art in the US, Shiva Gallery, John Jay College, New York, NY Kinship, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA Artists and Their Books/ Books and Their Artists, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA Art & Activism: Drawing the Line, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY Mis(missing) information, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Agora, The High Line, New York, NY Power to the People. Political Art Now, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany Nothing Stable under Heaven, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA ¡¿Welcome?!, Manetti Shrem Museum, University of California, Davis, CA Manifesto: A Moderate Proposal, curated by Ciara Ennis and Jennifer Vanderpool, Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, CA
2017 Really?, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940- 2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Sonic Rebellion: Music as Resistance, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI Marching to the Beat, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA Women to the Front: Works from the Miller Meigs Collection, Lumber Room, Portland, OR I Plan to Stay a Believer, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY documenta 14, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany Graphic Witness, Drawing Room, London, UK Resistance Training, curated by Glen Helfand, Mills College, Oakland, CA Occupancy, Boston University Art Galleries, Boston, MA The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY The Intersectional Self, The 8th Floor, The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, New York, NY La Terra Inquieta, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy “Political Intent” and “Beyond Limits,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, BA Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection, MoMA, New York, NY
2016 The Revolution Will Not Be Gray, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO Displacement: Symbols and Journeys, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL Take Me (I’m Yours), Jewish Museum, New York The Gildless Age, curated by Denise Johnson, Torrence Art Museum, Torrence, CA Andrea Bowers: Sanctuary, curated by Sofia Hernandez Chong Chuy, Bronx
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Museum, New York, NY Let There Be Light, curated by Jens Hoffman, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA
2015 A Sign Only Has to Serve as a Sign, Providence College Galleries, Providence, RI A Voice Remains, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK Drawing Now, Albertina, Vienna When Artists Speak Truth, The 8th Floor, New York The Bottom Line, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium Words, Words, Words, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Citizen, Tate Modern, London Agritprop!, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Burning Down the House, 10th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, NM Drip friheten! Take Liberty!, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway Pace Gems, Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, TX The Sunken Living Room, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy, The Drawing Center, New York L’avenir (looking forward), curated by Gregory Burke, Peggy Gale, Lesley Johnstone and Mark Lanctt, La Biennale de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Post-Picasso: Contemporary Artists Responses to his Life and Art, Museu Picasso, Barcelona If I can’t dance to it, it’s not my revolution, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA The Other Side: Chinese and Mexican Immigration to America,” USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA; traveled to Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, TX
2013 Arctic, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark Utah Biennial of Contemporary Art in collaboration with Cori Redstone, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Mundo, UT Selections from the Grunwald Center and the Hammer Contemporary Collection, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Approximately Infinite Universe, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA Labour and Wait, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA The Past is Present, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
2012 The Residue of Memory, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO The Black Whale, MARCO de Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain Make Liverpool a City of Sanctuary, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, England No Person May Carry a Fish into a Bar, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles Drawn from Photography, curated by Claire Gilman, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago Malas Artes, Galeria Nieves Fernandes, Madrid Audience as Subject, Part 2: Extra Large, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Go Tell In On The Mountain, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles Five Acts: Chronicles of Dissent, Marginal Utility, Philadelphia, PA Femmescapes, Lenore Pereira & Rich Niles private gallery, San Francisco, CA The Living Years: Art after 1989, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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2011 Nothing Beside Remains, collaboration with Shizu Sadamando, L.A.N.D., Marfa, TX Why I Never Became a Dancer, Sammlung Goetz at Haus der Kunst, Munich I Am Still Alive: Politics and Everyday Life in Contemporary Drawing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Greater LA, curated by Benjamin Godsill, Elanor Cayre and Joel Mesler, PS1, Brooklyn, NY Drawn from Photography, curated by Claire Gilman, The Drawing Center, New York Alles Kannibalen?, Me-Collector’s Room, Berlin Audience as Subject, Part 2: Extra Large, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco In Process, Ann 330 Gallery, Los Angeles Word Is...., CSULA Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles
2010 The Last Newspaper, New Museum, New York Everything is Political, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Supernatural, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles In the Balance: art for a changing world, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia The Artists Museum: Los Angeles Artists 1980-2010, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles The Politics of Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens Sisters, Brothers & Others, Claremont University East Gallery, Claremont, CA The Seventh House, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX The Road to Hell is Paved, Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles Cycle 8: Stowaways, The Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Araba, Spain, curated by Elke Krystufek, part of the exhibition series PASSWORDS, New Representation of Femininity Love in a Cemetary, 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, CA
2009 Collection: MOCA's First 30 Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Fight the Power, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy: Your Donations Do Our Work, Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA (two-person show)
2008 Wunderkrammer Lüneburg, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany California Biennial 2008, curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA Progress, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection, The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles nach/sichten. Video works from the Goetz Collection, curated by Sabine Himmelsbach and Stephan Urbaschek, Edith Russ Site for Media Art in Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany Proyecto Civico / Civic Project, curated by Lucia Sanroman and Ruth Estevez, Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT), Tijuana, Mexico Memory is your image of perfection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA Southern Exposure: Works from the Collection of the MCA San Diego, curated by Rachel Kent and Dr. Stephanie Hanor Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art and Politics, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA We Remember The Sun, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
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Amateurs, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, La Mirada Iracunda / The Furious Gaze, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Gasteiz, Spain Small Things End, Great Things Endure, curated by Jill Dawsey and Maria Del Carmen Carrion, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA Furious Gaze, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2007 Read me! Text in Art, The Armory Center, Los Angeles Radical Hospitality, The Suburban, Chicago Nothing Moments Projects, curated by Steven Hull and Tami Demaree, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles space.gaze.desire, curated by Sanne Kofod Olsen, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Netherlands Resistance is..., curated by Tina Kukielski, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York OHIO, Gahlberg Gallery, McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL Encore, curated by Huey Copeland and Hannah Feldman, Gallery 40000, Chicago Classe de Danse, curated by Alessio Fransoni and Ilari Valbonesi, Madonna fust Galerie, Bern, Switzerland The California Files: Re-Viewing Side Effects of Cultural Memory, curated by Ariane Beyn, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA Tanzen Sehen, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Seigen, Germany The Evil, curated by Raimar Stange, Galerie Gebr Lehmann, Dresden, Germany
2006 Personal Affairs, Morsbroich Museum, Leverkusen, Germany Particulate Matter, curated by Glen Helfand, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA 20 jahre NAK, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany Prevailing Climate, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York First Artist Defines Meaning, Camera Austria, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria Human Game: Winners and Losers, curated by Francesco Bonami, Maria Luisa Frisa, and Stefano Tonchi Fondazione Pitti Discovery, Florence, Italy This is Not a Love Song, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles Anticipation, curated by Karen Irvine, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago Art for our sake!, Bard College, Annendale-on-Hudson, NY Welcome Home, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York Jump Cut—Nights, (a symposium on choreographic structures in moving images) and “Videoperformance—stories told through movement”, curated by Georg Elben Cinema of Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
2005 Monuments for the USA, curated by Ralph Rugoff, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, traveling to White Columns, New York REALIT;-)T, curated by Andreas Meier with Dr. Stephan Urbaschek, Sammlung Goetz, Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Switzerland Touch of Evil, Gallery Estacion Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico The Last Christmas, Mehdi Chouakri, Riverside Wall, Berlin Estacion Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico Mary Goldman, Los Angeles Old News, curated by Jacob Fabricius, LACE, Los Angeles New Tapestries, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Training (screening), Kunsthalle Basel, Art/Film, Art/ 36/Basel,
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Switzerland Fast Forward, Media Art from the Goetz Collection, Conde Duque Centro Cultural, Madrid
2004 100 Artists See God, curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston traveling to The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA; Albright College Freedman Art Gallery, Reading, PA; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN Whitney Biennial, curated by Chrissie Iles, Shamim Momin, and Debra Singer, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Dance Dance Revolution, curated by Matthew Lyons & Lanka Tattersall, The Leroy Neiman Gallery Columbia University, New York Victory 2004, Ronald Felman, New York kurzdavordanach, curated by von Wilhelm Schürmann, Die Photographische Sammlung/ SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany Vieja Gloria, film screening, University of Illinois, Chicago The Freedom Salon, Deitch Projects, New York Drawings, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
2003 Fast Forward: Media Art Sammlung Goetz, Media Works from the Goetz Collection between Ethno-Narration and Formal Innovation, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; Conde Duque Centro Cultural, Madrid (catalogue) Rendered, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York Yard: An exhibition about the private landscape that surrounds suburban domestic architect, curated by Robyn Donohue and Alyson Baker, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY Extended Play: Art Remixing Music, curated by Simon Rees, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand C.O.L.A. 2003, Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles Conversations, curated by Connie Butler, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2002 Videodrome II, curated by Dan Cameron, Anne Barlow, Johanna Burton and Anne Ellegood New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME Time-Share, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop, curated by Simon Wallis, Tate Liverpool, England DV Noir: Video Art from Under the Shadow of Hollywood”, curated by Rodolfo Sanchez, Museum at California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA (catalogue) LA On My Mind: Recent Acquisitions from MOCA’s Collection, curated by Michael Darling, MOCA @ The Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles Gallery Group Show, Goldman Tevis, Los Angeles New Heimat, curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany Retake, curated by Susanne Titz and Ulrike Groos, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany (catalogue) Untitled (Bowers, Hamilton, Schwarz, Steinfeld), curated by Christine Bisetto and Steffen Boddeker, Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
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2001 Casino 2001, curated by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Ghent, Belgium (catalogue) Everybody Now, curated by Katy Siegel, The Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York Subject Plural, curated by Paola Morsiani, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX False Start, curated by Cecilia Brunson, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale- on-Hudson, NY
2000 Video Take, Stuc en Hedendaagse Kunsten, De Openabare Bibliotheek, Leuven, Belgium Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Film & Video, curated by Amy Cappellazzo, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; PBICA, Palm Beach, FL Radar Love, curated by David Pagel, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy Game On!, curated by Sara Meltzer, essay by Jenelle Porter and Conny Purtill, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York Moving Pictures, Galerie Tommy Lund, Copenhagen, Denmark
1999 Painting: Fore and Aft, ACME, Los Angeles Drawing the Line, curated by Kirk Delman, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA Venus, curated by Habib Kheradyar, Arc, Vienna Motion Studies, curated by Michael Darling, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark Living Theatre, curated by Diana Thater and Hildegund Amanshauser, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria (catalogue) Video Cult/tures, ZKM, Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany (catalogue) More Than Meets the Eye,curated by Wilhelm Schuermann, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (catalogue) Transfer, curated by Rosanne Alstatt, Videonale-Intermezzo, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany I’m the Boss of Myself, curated by Sara Meltzer, Sara Meltzer’s on view, New York Me Mine, curated by Julie Joyce and Mike Mehring, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles Group Exhibition, curated by Susie Allen for Virgin Atlantic Airways, Virgin Atlantic VIP Lounge, Newark Airport, Newark, NJ
1998 Unfinished History, curated by Francesco Bonami, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (catalogue) Guarene Arte 98, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’arte, Turin, Italy (catalogue) Ohio, (two person show with Sam Durant) Dogenhaus, Berlin Time Dilates, Three Day Weekend, New York Kamikaze, curated by Monica Bonvicini, Marstall, Berlin Phoenix Triennial, curated by David Rubin, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (catalogue) In the Polka Dot Kitchen, curated by Sally Elesby and Anne Ayres, Otis Gallery and Armory Center, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue) Love at the End of the Tunnel, or the Beginning of a Smart New Day, curated by Marilu Knode Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA (catalogue) Wings of Desire, curated by Michelle Guy, Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA Three Day Weekend, curated by Dave Muller, Los Angeles
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Youth Studies, curated by Brad Spence, POSTdowntown, Los Angeles
1997 Places That Are Elsewhere, curated by Diana Thater, David Zwirner Gallery, New York Quartzose, curated by Michael Darling, Galleri Tommy Lund, Copenhagen Hot Coffee, curated by Thomas Lawson, Artists Space, New York The Summer of Love, Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, New York
1996 Space Space, curated by Stephen Hartzog, POST, Los Angeles True.BLISS, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles (catalogue) Trying/Pattern, Chance, a project by Art Center College, Whisky Pete’s, NV Open House, curated by John O’Brien, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA (catalogue) Ether, curated by Michelle Guy, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Report from Spring Training, Spanish Box, Santa Barbara, CA
1995 Neotoma, Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles Redevelopment, curated by Stephen Hartzog & Rick Pirro Couldn’t Get Ahead, curated by Adam McEwen, Independent Artists Space, London (catalogue) Three Day Weekend Takes an Extended Working Vacation, In Rezone at Diverse Works, Houston, TX People-Going Places-Doing Things, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago Pretty, FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
1994 Thanks—The Works Is Not For Sale But Up For Barter, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles Dave’s Not Here, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles Thanks Again, FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA Bad Girls, curated by Marcia Tucker, New Museum, New York (catalogue) The Power of Positive Thinking, curated by Sam Durant, FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA Second Skin, curated by Charles LaBelle, Espace, San Francisco, CA Utter Realities, curated by Randy Sommer, Cerritos College Fine Art Gallery, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA PARANOID, co-organized by Sam Durant, M*Y*T*H* Series at the Brewery, Los Angeles
1993 Loose Slots, curated by Richard Kuhlenshmidt, Temporary Contemporary, Las Vegas, NV Melancholic Consolation and Cynicism, Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany; Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Thank You, FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA Public & Private Pleasure, curated by Lauren Lesko, Nomadic Sites, Los Angeles Cherry Bomb, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Heaven Missing, Jose Freire Gallery, New York FOOD HOUSE Visits the Art Store Gallery, curated by FOOD HOUSE, The Art Store, Los Angeles Imp of the Perverse, curated by Alisa Tager, Sally Hawkins Gallery, New York
1992 Skinned Eyes/Skin Dye, curated by Tyler Stallings, The Bridge Gallery, Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles The FAR Bazaar, Foundation for Art Resources Inc., Federal Reserve Building, Los Angeles Good Design, organized by Jorge Pardo & Pae White, Nomadic Sites, Pasadena, CA
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Afterthought, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1991 Window on L.A., curated by David Pagel, L.A. Art Fair, Los Angeles Tales From The Creeps, Marc Richards Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Performances
1993 Indignant Fairy, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA 1991 Cafeteria, The Other 45 Minutes, Los Angeles
Grants and Awards
2011 Anonymous Was a Woman, Grant Recipient Art Matters, Grant Recipient 2010 FOCAFellowship, Grant Recipient 2009 The California Community Foundation Arts Fellowship Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Grant Recipient 2008 United States Artists Broad Fellow Contemporary Collectors: Orange County, Fellowship The Durfee Foundation, Grant Recipient 2003 City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Fellowship Recipient for Visual Arts 1998 Nominee, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’arte Prize WESTAF/NEA, Regional Fellowship for Visual Arts in Sculpture
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2020 Cascone, Sarah. "Editors’ Picks: 16 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week," artnet, February 10 Howe, David Everett. "Andrea Bowers Portrays the Future of Activism," Art in America, March Aguirre, Abby. "Inside the Los Feliz Home of Frieze’s Bettina Korek," W, January 29 Angeleti, Gabriella and Wallace Ludel. "Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend," The Art Newspaper, January 16
2019 Ye, Fiona. "New exhibition ‘In Plain Sight’ powerfully brings unheard voices into public sphere," The Daily, November 27 Carrigan, Margaret. "Art Basel removes part of sexual harrassment-themed work," The Art Newspaper, June 13 O'Neil, Dilara. "Who Profits When Pain Becomes Art?," Garage, June 19 "Art Basel removes part of Andrea Bowers' 'Open Secret' installation," Malay Mail, June 14 Larsen, Nina. "Women artists bring #MeToo reckoning to Basel fair," Jakarta Post, June 14 Niermann, Ingo. "Basel Roundup," Art Agenda, June 18 "#MeToo Art Installation in New York Involves Survivors’ Images Without Consent, Social Media Slams Artist Andrea Bowers," Latestly, June 13 Cascone, Sarah. "After an Outcry, Andrea Bowers Removes an Abuse Survivor’s Photos From a Monumental Artwork About the #MeToo Movement," artnet, June 12
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Schneider, Tim and Kate Brown. "The 6 Best—and Riskiest—Artworks at Art Basel Unlimited, Where the Fair’s Supersized Artwork Shines," artnet, June 11 Siegel, Nina. "#MeToo Work at Art Basel Offers Cautionary Tale About Political Art," New York Times, June 16 Kinsella, Eileen. "The #MeToo Movement Will Headline Art Basel Unlimited This Year With Andrea Bowers’s Epic Account of America’s Harassment Reckoning," artnet, April 16 Weathers, Chelsea. "After Posada: Revolution," Artforum, February
2018 Lambie, Mark. “El Paso artists’ sweet creations of pan dulce casts benefit Annunciation House,” El Paso Times, July 27 Lynch, Scott. “Check Out All This New Art & Insane Crowding On The High Line,” Gothamist, April 27 Misner, Rebecca. “San Francisco Now,” Condé Nast Traveler, March 5 Shaw, Anny. “Trump: the first year,” The Art Newspaper, January 10
2017 Cem Menguc, Murat. “Radical Art from the Past Decade, from Tahrir Square to Recife.” Hyperallergic, July 20 Woodward, Josef. “A compelling exhibition with a timely relevance, ‘Bowers/ERRE, So Close and So Far’ presents an artful take on border and immigration issues” Art Review, February 24 Smith, William S. “The Neighbors, part two, in two parts: Sanctuary: Andrea Bowers and Home: Andrea Aragón.” Art in America, February 22 Binlot, Ann. “UNTITLED Takes on San Francisco for First Time.” artnet, January 13 Mitter, Siddhartha. “’People Have Beek Kind of Slapped Awake: Urgent New Art Show Shines a Light on Immigration. The Village Voice, January 4
2016 Barrie, Lita. “Andrea Bowers’ Activist Aesthetics: ‘Triumph Of Labor’ At Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. Huffington Post, July 7 Knight, Christopher. “Review: Art meets activism in Andrea Bowers’ ‘Triumph of Labor’ at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects.” Los Angeles Time, June 17 Chamberlain, Colby. “Reviews: Andrea Bowers.” Artforum, May Bruney, Gabrielle. “Stunning Portraits Spotlight Trans Women Activists of Color.” The Creators Project, Vice, February 22 Scott, Andrea K. “American Beauty.” The New Yorker, March 28 Cotter, Holland. “Andrea Bowers, ‘Whose Feminism Is It Anyway?’” The New York Times, March 17 Dunne, Carey. “The Transgender Women Activists of Color in Andrea Bowers’ Iconic Photos.” Hyperallergic, March 10 Davis, Ben. “Andrea Bowers Fights for Transgender Icons in New Chelsea Show.” ARTnews, February 24
2015 The Bottom Line, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Gent, Belgium Gordon, Larry, “California Colleges See Surge in Efforts to Unionize Adjunct Faculty.” Los Angeles Times, January 3 Basha, Regine. “La Biennale de Montral: Lavenir (looking forward).” Modern Painters, January Deleu, Sylvain. “Art Basel Switzerland Announce their 2015 Gallery Lineup.” artlyst, March 3 “Group Exhibition A Voice Remains to Open at Pippy Houlsworth Gallery.” artlyst, April 24 Purseglove, Laura. “Art Review: A Voice Remains Pippy Houldsworth Gallery Reactivating the Revolution.” artlyst, April 30
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Glentzer, Molly. “Provacative Show Examines Immigration.” Houston Chronicle, May 10 Kirsch, Corinna. “Art teachers paid the same as McDonalds workers.” The Art Newspaper, July 2 Ricciardi, Nicola. “Nothing is neutral: an interview with Andrea Bowers.” Mousse Magazine, February
2014 Knight, Christopher. “Year in Review: Christopher Knights Best Art Shows of 2014.” Los Angeles Times, December 19 Bowers, Andrea. “Feminists.” Art in America, December Smith, William S. “SITElines.2014: Unsettled Landscapes.” Art in America, November Cooper, Ashton. “Art and Activism: Talking Steubenville, Andrea Bowers in Conversation with Ashton Cooper.” The Brooklyn Rail, November 5 Munro, Cait. “At Montreal Biennial Artists Tackle Sexual Politics in the 21st Century.” Artnet, November 3 Byrd, Cathy. “Fresh Talk: Andrea Bowers.” Fresh Art International, October 2 Morgan, Jessica. “Burning Down the House.” Gwangju Biennale 2014 Exhibition Catalogue, October Bowers, Andrea, and Lacy, Suzanne. “After the Slumber Party.” The Brooklyn Rail, September 4 Landi, Anne. “Documenting the Americas: Art With a Political Bent, but the Messages Are Seldom Heavy-Handed.” The Wall Street Journal, September 2 Galan, Manuela. “Paris Top 10 Contemporary Art Exhibitions this Summer.” The Culture Trip, August Weiderman, Paul. “SITE Sante fe Andrea Bowers: The art of activism.” Sante Fe New Mexician, July 18 Hanson, Sarah. “Pushing Boundaries: SITE Santa Fes Reimagined Biennial.” Artinfo, July 18 Landi, Anne. “Bringing the Cutting-Edge to Santa Fe.” ARTnews, summer Joyce, Erin. “A First Look at the New SITE Santa Fe Biennial.” Hyperallergic, July 31 Cristello, Stephanie. “Unsettled Lanscapes: An Interview with Andrea Bowers.” ARTSlant, ‘ July Hirsh, Jennie. “A New Chapter for SITE Santa Fe Biennial.” Art in America, June 13 Groppe, Pierre. “In Situ 1: Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton gives Andrea Bowers carte blance.” Vogue Paris, June 4 Gelsomini, Tina, “BNLMTL 2014 // Andrea Bowers.” The Seen: Chicagos International Online Journal of Contemporary at Modern Art, May 27 Fisch, Sarah, “Pace Gems: Flawless Pieces, Gorgeous Setting Lost in a Jumble.” San Antonio Current, April 30 Buckley, Annie. “Investigating Steubenville: Andrea Bowers’ #sweetjane.” KCET Artbound, February 6 Maloney, Patricia. “Episode 447: Andrea Bowers, #sweetjane.” Bad at Sports (audio interview), March 24 Willette, Jeanne. “Preview: Andrea Bowers at Pomona College Museum of Art.” ArtScene, January Knight, Christopher. “Review: #sweetjane.” Los Angeles Times, February 18 Yoshimura, Courtney. “500 Words: Andrea Bowers.” Artforum.com, January 21
2013 “Transformer Display For Community Fundraising: Phase 4.” Skidmore.edu, February 4 Mania, Astrid. “Critics Picks: Andrea Bowers at Capitain Petzel.” Artforum.com Geiser, Kirsa. "Review: Andrea Bowers, 'Cultivating the Courage to Sin' at Capitain Petzel."
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Spike Art Quarterly, Winter Mania, Astrid. "Critics' Picks: Andrea Bowers at Capitain Petzel." Artforum, October 16 Ruthe, Ingeborg. "Ihre Freunde, die Bume: Andrea Bowers, Capitain Petzel." Berliner Zeitung, October 15 Cheng, Scarlet. “Labour and Wait displays the melding of art and craft.” Los Angeles Times, August 31 Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter. “Art Talk: Labour and Wait at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.” KCRW, August 15 Smith, Roberta. “40 Nations, 1,000 Artists and One Island.” New York Times, May 10 Heddaya, Mostafa. “Andrea Bowers Protest letters Taken Down Overnight at Frieze.” Hyperallergic, May 10 Kinsella, Eileen. “Labor Activists Return to Protest Frieze, Will Speak Out at Nato Thompson Talk.” ArtInfo, May 10 Kjellburg, Ann. “Not Fair: Artist Andrea Bowers Writes to the Organizers of the Frieze Art Fair.” Little Star, May 10 Sutton, Benjamin. “Andrea Bowers Hangs Letter Decrying Friezes Labor Practices in Susanne Vielmetters Booth.” ArtInfo, May 9 Lescaze, Zo. “Union Members Protest Frieze Labor Policy, Andrea Bowers Joins the Fray.” Gallerist NY, May 5 Willette, Jeanne. "Preview: Andrea Bowers at Pomona College Museum of Art." ArtScene, January
2012 Edwards, Jeff. “Never Forgotten: The Art and Activism of Andrea Bowers.” ArtPulse, April Richard, Frances. “Andrea Bowers.” Artforum, Winter Preview “27 Questions for Art Activist Andrea Bowers.” Artinfo International. January 4 Crow, Kelly. “Art Basel: From Bargains to Billionaires.” The Wall Street Journal, December 7 Heyman, Marshall. “The Insanity of Art Basel.” The Wall Street Journal, December 6 Kellaway, Brooke. “Letters to the Army of Three: Andrea Bowers on Abortion, Then and Now.” Walker Art Center, December 3 Knight, Christopher. "A timely, spirited protest at 'Work.’” LA Times, October 5 Heldebro, Johanna. "Interview with Andrea Bowers.” LAURA, Issue No. 8, Autumn Moshayedi, Aram. “No Person May Carry a Fish into a Bar.” Artforum.com Critics Pick, August Clayton, Campbell, Shamim Momin. Art Voices Magazine, Issue 38, June/July Green, Emily. “L.A. activists try to stop woodlands from becoming sediment dumps.” High Country News, May 14 Buszek, Maria Elena. “Necessary Positions in Feminist Art: A Conversation.” Art Journal, Spring Jacobson, Heidi Zuckerman. “The Kids Are Alright.” Huffington Post, April 30 “Audience as Subject Puts Spotlight on the Spectator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.” Huffingtonpost.com, February 15 Smith, Roberta. “Promising Tyros Join an Art Fair Club.” New York Times, March 9 Kiyoizumi, A.J. “Art Show Examines Audiences.” The Daily Californian, February 22 Prestianni, Sam. “Mob Rules.” San Francisco Weekly, February 15 Richard, Frances. “Andrea Bowers.” Artforum, January Rochester, Katherine. “Five Acts: Chronicles of Dissent.” Artforum.com, February 16
2011 Gilbert, Alan. “Andrea Bowers’s “The New Woman’s Survival Guide”.” Art Agenda, December 7 Lookofsky, Sarah. “Andrea Bowers. Artforum.com Critic’s Picks.” Artforum.com December “Goings On About Town.” The New Yorker, December 12 Bloom, Lisa and Elena Glasberg. “Disappearing Ice and Missing Data: Climate Change in the
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Visual Culture of the Polar Regions.” Far Field: Digital Culture, Climate Change, and the Poles, November Cromer, Mark. “Incarceration to Installation.” Artillery. May/June Diaz, Eva. “Drawn from Photography.” ArtForum, Summer, p. 404-05 Dorfman, John. “The Lens and the Pencil.” Art & Antiques, February, p. 34 Gilman, Claire. Drawn from Photography. Exhibition catalog. The Drawing Center, New York Lawson, Thomas. “A Story about Civil Disobedience and Landscape: Interview with Andrea Bowers.” East Of Borneo, January Morgan, Margaret. Home Truths. The M Word, edited by Myrel Chernick and Jennie Klein. Demeter Press, 213-233.Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education. Edited by Eungie Joo, Joseph Keehn II, Jenny Ham-Roberts. Routledge, 2011. Rosenberg, Karen. “Drawn From Photography.” New York Times: Weekend Arts. February 25 Rosenow, Romina. “The Treet Watchers.” Pasadena Magazine, July, p. 36-39 Scott, Andrea K. “Drawn From Photography.” The New Yorker, March 21 Bruce, Caitlin. “Looking for the Political at Art Basel.” Art Threat, December 19 Cotter, Holland. “Complacency Butts Up Against Game Changers.” New York Times December 16 Andrea Bowers. The New Yorker. December 12 Rabel, Eduardo Alexander. “Something for Everyone.” Artslant.co, December 9 Sledge, Matt. “Occupy Art Basel Remains Elusive, But One Occupation Shoots Up In Miami Beach.” huffingtonpost.com, December 2 Rosenberg, Karen. “Art Fair: Business Over Activism.” New York Times, December 2 Loos, Ted. “Ten Things to Look Forward to at Art Basel in Miami.” Vogue, November 28 Lacy, Suzanne. “It Speaks to Me.” Los Angeles Times, September 21 Rosenberg, Karen. “Authorship or Translation? Notes Toward Redefining Creativity.” New York Times, February 24 Finkel, Jori. “Artist-activist Andrea Bowers arrested in tree-sitting protest in Arcadia.” Los Angeles Times, January 13 Finkel, Jori. “Artist Andrea Bowers turns activist.” Los Angeles Times, January 12
2010 Gilman, Claire. “Marking Politics: Drawing as Translation in Recent Art.” Art Journal, Fall Knight, Christopher. “Art Review: 'Supernatural’ @ Jancar Gallery.” Los Angeles Times, August 20 Mizota, Sharon. “’Love in a Cemetery’ at the 18th Street Art Center.” LA Times, February Duncan, David. “Andrea Bowers.” Art in America, January Barton, Greg. “Graphite Testimony.” The Last Times, December Zellen, Jody. “Andrea Bowers, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects.” Artillery, September/October Barliant, Claire. “The Last Newspaper.” Time Out New York, November 1 Miles, Christopher. “Andrea Bowers at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects.” LA Weekly, July 29 Knight, Christopher. “Other Side of the Dream.” Los Angeles Times, July 9 Beck, Graham T. “Andrea Bowers at Andrew Kreps.” Frieze, Issue 129, March Dean, Bec. "Raquel Ormella and Andrea Bowers: Life in the Balance." Art and Australia, Volume 48, No. 1 O'Neill-Butler, Lauren. “Andrea Bowers.” ArtForum, January 2010
2009 Amir, Yaelle. “Eco Action.” ArtSlant.com, November 23 “Andrea Bowers.” The New Yorker, November 23
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Luna, Marcela Quiroz. “Proyecto Cívico / Civic Project at Centro Cultural Tijuana- CECUT.” Latin Art, Spring Dean, Jennifer, “Exhibit at UCR pairs art, clothing drive for needy.” The Press-Enterprise, March 11 Buckley, Annie, “Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy.” ArtForum, March 6 Dambrot, Shana Nys. “Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy’s Progressive Home Ecenomics.” Magazine Los Angeles, February/March Calder, Diane, “Previews of Exhibitions: Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy.” Art Scene, February Lehrer-Graiwer, Sarah, “Museum Preview: 2008 California Biennial.” Art Forum, January Cotter, Holland. “Golden Oldies All Over Chelsea.” New York Times, December 4 Mizota, Sharon. “Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy.” Art Papers, November/December Emerling Susan. “Laton: the little California town that served as a muse.” Los Angeles Times, April 26 Cheng, Scarlet. “Irvine Shines at OC: 2008 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art.” Artillery magazine, March
2008 Artist’s Project: Andrea Bowers, Switch 1.1 : A Biannual Magazine Published by The Power Plant, Winter Estéves, Ruth and Lucia Sandromán Ed., Proyecto Civico Project, Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT), Mateus Books, November Boem, Mike. “3 L.A. Artists Get Fellowship.” Los Angeles Times, November 11, p. E-3 Knight, Christopher, “California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art.” Los Angeles Times, November 4 Firstenberg, Lauri, 2008 California Biennial. Exhibition catalogue. Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, October Schwarting, Jen. “Progress.” The Brooklyn Rail, October Melrod, George. “A Questioning Biennial, Interview with Lauri Firstenberg.” Art Ltd., November Andrea Bowers in Conversation with Catherine Opie, Catalogue, Art Resources Transfer, Canada: Westcan, Edited by Alejandro Cesarco O’Connell, Brian. “Ghostly Media: What Would an Invoking Media Look Like?” Art & Research, Volume 2, Number 1, Summer Morrone, Francis. “Changing Times, Changing Notions: 'Progress' At the Whitney.” The New York Sun, August 14 Myers, Julian. “Amateurs.” Frieze, September Rugoff, Ralph. Other Experts, Amateurs. Exhibition catalogue. CCA Wattis, San Francisco Schwarting, Jen. “Progress.” The Brooklyn Rail, October Pincus, Robert. “State of Mind.” San Diego Union Tribune, December 14 Knight, Christopher. “Dont Take It Lying Down.” Los Angeles Times, November 4 “The Orange County Museum of Art Presents the 2008 California Biennale.” artdaily.org, October 26 Kecskes, Alex. “A Rich Palette of Talent.” 944 Magazine, October Harmanci, Reyhan. “Face of Femminism: Small Things End, Great Things Endure.” San Francisco Chronicle, January 17 Bryan-Wilson, Julia. “Preview: The Way That We Rhyme.” Artforum, January Krishtalka, Sholem. “A Furious Embrace: Not a soft downy comforter.” Xtra! January 7
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2007 Borchhardt-Birbaumer, Brigitte. “Modelle einer kritischen Gegenwartskuns.” Wiener Zeitung, February 22 Pagel, David. “It Pays to Be Booksmart and Streetwise.” Los Angeles Times, December 28 Stange, Raimar. The Evil (exhibition catalogue) Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden, Germany, December Fragoza, Carribean, LAXART Benefit Art Auction Draws Energetic Crowds and Funds, Flash Art Online, November 16 Prickett, Sarah Nicole. “Art-Hopping: Power Plant, Gallery TPW, Deluca Fine Arts.” Torontoist, Nov. 29 Food, Brian. “Going Out: Things to do and People to See in T.O. this week.” Globe and Mail, November 24 Buckley, Annie. “A Handmade’s Tale: Andrea Bowers Bears Witness to the Equilibrium Between Art and Activism.” A & U Magazine, September Patterson, Carrie. “Andrea Bowers: The Weight of Relevance.” Art Circles, Issue #5, Fall Moshayedi, Aram. “Andrea Bowers: Los Angeles.” Art Papers, July/August Schmidt, Eva. Tanzen Sehen, Exhibition catalogue. Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen Mizota, Sharon. “Filling the Gap.” art ltd, July Mizota, Sharon. “Politics sewn to art, panel by quilt-like panel.” Los Angeles Times, June 9 Bowers, Andrea. “Beyond Drawing.” Art on Paper, Vol. 11, May/June, p.66-68. Pagel, David. “Honoring a quilt and its powerful message.” Los Angeles Times, May 18 Bowers, Andrea. “Guest Lecture by Andrea Bowers.” Artillery, Vol 1, No. 5, p. 24, May Bedford, Christopher. “Artforum Pick: Andrea Bowers at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects.” Artforum.com, May 19 Beyn, Ariane, The California Files, (catalogue), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, April 19 Wing, Carlin, “WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution”, Fluent Collaborative, issue 87, April “Personal Affairs.” Kunstforum International, vol. 184, March/April Intimer Einblick in verborgene—durch die Kunst, Dumont Kunst, February Kort, Michele. “The Women Who Came Before Roe.” Alternet, January Die Verborgenen chatze des Leverkusener Kunsttempels, Das Regionale Freizeitmagazin, January
2006 Schmidt, Jason. “Artists.” Paris, Edition 7L, 2006, p. 137 Wolff, Elaine. “At the Crossroads with Freud and Roe.” San Antonio Current, November 1-7 Goddard, Dan R. “Photorealistic drawings honor women's social activism.” San Antonio Express News, Nov. 26 Jones, Amelia. “A Companion to Contemporary Art since 1945.” London, Blackwell Publishing, pp.181-182 Schwenke-Runkel, Ingeborg. Wie viel Intimitat ist erlaubt?, Kolner - Stadt - Anzeiger, vol 2.3, December Heinzelmann, Markus, New Forms of Intimacy, Personal Affairs catalogue, Museum Morsbroich, DuMont Literature and Kunst Verlag Lawson, Thomas. “Best of 2006.” Artforum, December, p. 290 Kohler, Michael. “Das Ich als Grabbelkiste.” Frankfurter Rundschau, Vol 7, December Payton, Brenda. “Art explores world at tipping point.” Oakland Tribune, September 22 “Personal Affairs.” Düsseldorfer Hefte, December Museum Morsbroich, Golf Report Köln, December “Wie viel Intimitat ist erlaubt?” Kölner-Stadt-Anzeiger, vol. 2.3, December “Das Ich als Grabbelkiste.” Frankfurter Rundschau, vol. 7, December
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“Andrea Bowers and Paul Chan: Power, Tarzan and Jane.” The Wrong Times, p. 9 Bonami, Francesco; Frisa, Maria Luisa; Tonchi, Stefano, Human Game, Charta and Fondazione (in English and Italian) Valdez, Sarah. “Andrea Bowers: Nothing is Neutral at REDCAT, Los Angeles.” art on paper, Nov./Dec. Payton, Brenda. “Art explores world at tipping point.” The Oakland Tribune, September 22 Dawsey, Jill. “Andrea Bowers' History Lessons.” Afterall, Autumn/Winter, pp.18-26 Sperlinger, MIke. “Bad Example: Andrea Bowers.” Afterall, Autumn/Winter, pp.11-17 Bowers, Andrea, and Paul Chan. “Power.” The Wrong Times, p.9 Kort, Michelle. “Letters to an Army of 3: Artist Andrea Bowers honors pre-Roe pioneers.” Ms. Magazine, Fall Helfand, Glen. particulate matter, (show catalogue), Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA Myers, Terry. “Andrea Bowers, Nothing is Neutral.” Modern Painters, September, p. 102 Morgan, Margaret, Regarding Beauty, a companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945, Blackwell Publishing, edited by Jones, Amelia, p. 182 Joo, Eungie. Nothing is Neutral: Andrea Bowers, and RedCat (show catalogue) Essays: Butler, Connie, Andrea Bowers’s Magical Feminism; Joo, Eungie, “DIY School” (interview); Leclère, Mary, The Skeptic’s Question Lapp, Axel, Your Whole Fucking Culture Alienates Me: Andrea Bowers, ArtReview, July, issue 1, p 135 Bonami, Francesco, Maria Luisa Frisa, and Stefano Tonchi. Human Game: Winners and Losers. Exhibition catalogue. Florence: Fondazione Pitti Discovery and Charta Myers, Holly. “Balancing art, politics.” Los Angeles Times, July 19, p. E3 Baldwin, Cara. “Cara Baldwin interviews Andrea Bowers.” InterReview, p. 33-34 Futernick, Marisa. “Marisa Futernick on Andrea Bowers.” InterReview, p. 35 Herbst, Marc. “An elegy near Andrea Bowers.” InterReview, p. 36-37 Lowther, John. “John Lowther on Andrea Bowers.” InterReview, p. 38-39 Bell, Kirsty; Lubbke-Tidow, Maren; Stange, Raimar, Andrea Bowers/ Matthew Antezzo, Neue Review, Art in Berlin, January, p. 4-9 Pollack, Barbara. “Social Studies: Sixty artists overhaul the concept of national monument.” Time Out New York, January
2005 Leclère, Mary, Andrea Bowers: Letters to the Army of Three, exhibition catalogue, The Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, p 4-11 Meltzer, Eve. “Monuments for the USA.” FRIEZE, Summer Kraus, Chris; Tumlir, Jan; McFadden, Jane, LA Artland: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles, Black Dog Publishing, London, p.168, 217 Sholis, Brian, Vitamin D, New Perspectives in Drawings, Phaidon Press, London and New York, essay p. 36, illustrations p. 37-39, bio p. 336 Lorch, Catrin. “Van Horn, Düsseldorf, Germany.” Frieze, Issue 94, October, p. 228 Bowers, Andrea. “Four Emerging Women Speak Out On Mary Kelly's Circa 1968: Danielle Gustafson Sundell, Cara Balwin, Marisa J. Futernick and Andrea Bowers.” InterReview, p. 28-29 Fast Forward/Avance Rapido, Media Art From the Goetz Collection, p. 26-27, 40-45 Rugoff, Ralph. “Monuments for the USA.” p. 32-33 Siegel, Katy. “All Together Now.” Artforum, January, p. 169
2004 Bankowsky, Jack. “This is Today.” Artforum, May, p. 170 Bowers, Andrea. “Magical Politics – Feast or Fasting.” Cakewalk, p. 23-25
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Bowers, Andrea. “My Pop.” Artforum, October, p. 94 Dambrot, Shana Nys. “Andrea Bowers at Mary Goldman Gallery.” Artweek, September Dunn, Melissa. “Whitney Biennial: A Good-Looking Corpse.” Flash Art, May/June, p. 63 Heartney, Eleamor. “The Well-Tempered Biennial.” Art in America June/July, p. 75 Knight, Christopher. “Politics and art? Of course, she says.” The Los Angeles Times, June 11 Kuhn, Thomas. “Fast Forward.” Kunstforum International, issue 168, January/February Larsen, Lars Bang; Siegel, Katy; Verwoert, Jan. “What the World Needs Now....” Frieze, November/December, p. 52-53, 77-78, 81-82, 84-86, 88 Lee, Pamela M. “Crystal Lite.” Artforum, May, p. 174 Mania, Astrid. “Andrea Bowers.” U-Spot, issue 02, p. 49 Martens, Anne. “Andrea Bowers.” Flash Art, July/September, p. 116 Morgan, Susan. “If Memories Failed to Fade.” Magazin 4 Rapkin, Mickey. “Bold Biennial.” Details, March, p. 78 Seigel, Katy; Mattick, Paul. “Art Works Money.” Thames & Hudson, p. 34-35, 100-101, 194 Siegel, Katy. “American Pie.” Frieze, May, p. 69 Sholis, Brian. “Creative Resistance—Carol Bove and Andrea Bowers.” Flash Art, October
2003 Fast Forward: Media Art from the Goetz Collection, Exhibition catalogue. Munich: Sammlung Goetz, Durant, Sam; Bonvicini, Monica. “Andrea Bowers.” Neue Review, December “Focus Video and Film.” Flash Art, March/April, p. 93 Jana, Renna. “California Dreamin.” Tema Celeste Kantor, Jordan. “Andrea Bowers.” Artforum, January, p. 140 Myers, Holly. “Relationships at Play in the Physical World.” Los Angeles Times, July 19 Smith, Roberta. “Impressions of the Yard, Visual and Olfactory.” New York Times, June 27 Sorbello, Marina. “Andrea Bowers: Magical Politics.” The Art Newspaper, December Thorson, Alice. “The Art of War.” Kansas City Star, March 30
2002 Bowers, Andrea. “Game Girl.” V Magazine, July/August Bowers, Andrea. “Top Ten.” Artforum, April, p. 38 Casino 2001, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Gavlak, Sarah. “Andrea Bowers, ‘Intimate Strangers’.”Time Out, issue 277, January p. 11-18 Harvey, Doug. “About Time: Bitchin’ video art at the Hammer.” LA Weekly, February, p. 16-22 Knode, Marilu, Andrea Bowers, Retake, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Liverpool, p. 70-75 Kraus, Chris; Siegel, Katy, Andrea Bowers, Sara Meltzer Gallery Pagel, David. “The Myth of Selling Out.” Art Issues, Summer Pagel, David. “MOCA Sampler Is a Mixed Treat.” Los Angeles Times, February 8 Bowers, Andrea, Annual Report, Fiscal Years 2000 and 2001, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Robinson, Walter. “Baselmania.” art.com magazine, June 16 Siegel, Katy, Andrea Bowers, Everybody Now, Bertha and Karl Leubdsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College Siegel, Katy. “Katy Siegel on Andrea Bowers.” Artforum, January, p. 121 Wallis, Simon. Andrea Bowers, Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop, Tate Liverpool
2001 Amanshauser, Hildegund; Thater, Diana. A Living Theatre (catalogue), Salzburger Kunstverein, p. 22-33 Klassmeyer, Kelly, Group Mentality, Houston Press, April 12-18 Knode, Marilu, Revolution Dance (catalogue), Wiederaufnahme (Retake), NAK Neuer
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Aachener Kunstverein Molinari, Guido. “Radar Love.” Flash Art, December New Heimat, Frankfurter Kunstverein (catalogue) Siegel, Katy. “First Take: New Art, New Artists.” Artforum, January, p. 121
2000 Baers, Michael, An Art Enclave Heats Up in Chinatown, Art Berget, Bill. “Featured Stories: Marking Time as a Material in Film and Video opens at the Palm Beach ICA.” onview.com, April 18 Bowers, Andrea. “Nasty, or unclean, offensive, indecent, inclement. Monica Bonvicini interviewed by Andrea Bowers.” Monica Bonvicini: Scream and Shake, p. 30-38 Cappellazzo, Amy, Making Time: Considering Time As a Material in Contemporary Video & Film, New York: DAP, March Guequierre, Nathan. “Karaoke Voyeurism.” Shepherd Express Metro, November 9 Harvey, Doug. “It’s Chinatown.” LA Weekly, May 5-11, p. 49 Hunt, David. “Andrea Bowers at Sara Meltzer’s On View....” Frieze, issue 50, January/February, p. 94-95 Pagel, David. “Thrilling and Shiny: Bowers’ Work Resonates.” Los Angeles Times, February 25, p. F3 Pagel, David. “Andrea Bowers: Artist, Los Angeles.” Artforum, September/October, vol. 20 no. 5 Snow, Vicki. “Unfinished History.” TGIF, February 5, p. 12-17 Thater, Diana. “A Living Theater.” Magazin 4 Salzburger Kunstuerein
1999 Amanshauser, Hildegund. “A Living Theatre.” Magazin 4 Salzburger Kunstverein, p. 76-83 Cappellazzo, Amy, I’m the Boss of Myself or Please Release Me Let Me Go, New York, Sara Meltzer’s on View, illustration p. 3 Darling, Michael. “Michael Darling’s (Museum and Gallery) Top 10 Plus 10.” LA Weekly, January 8-14, p. 50 Grabner, Michelle. “Unfinished History.” Frieze, issue 46, June/July Knode, Marilu. “Unfinished History.” Art/Text, no. 65, May/July, p. 93-94 Schürmann, Wilhelm, More than meets the eye (exhibition catalogue), Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, p. 81, 83
1998 Bonami, Francesco, Unfinished History, Walker Art Center, p. 15-33, illustrations p. 66-69 Calame, Ingrid, In the Polka Dot Kitchen, Foundation Press, p. 19-42 Coleman, Sarah; Helford, Glen; Tan, Sylvia, “Wings of Desire/Floss”, The San Francisco Bay Guardi, February Darling, Michael. “Crowd Control.” Frieze, issue 38, January/February, p. 52-53 Demetre, Jim. “End of the world? I Feel Fine.” Seattle Weekly, February Fogle, Douglas. “Andrea Bowers.” GUARENE ARTE 98, Torino, Italy, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’arte, p. 12-16 Fredericksen, Eric. “Deeply Shallow.” The Stranger, February 19 Kangas, Matthew. “Flower Power and Frivolities.” The Seattle Times, February 12 Kelly, Ruby. “The Ruby Kelly Column.” Art Review, April “L.A. Trained Artists Shown at Art Institute.” San Francisco Chronicle, February 19 Martin, Victoria. “Andrea Bowers at the Santa Monica Museum of Art.” Artweek McEwen, John. “Couldn’t Get Ahead.” Sunday Telegraph, April 23
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O’Reilly, John. “Art for Bart’s Sake.” Modern Review, April 10, p. 33 Rubin, David S. “Considering Audience: Reflections On the 1998 Phoenix Triennial.” 1998 Phoenix Triennial, Phoenix Art Museum, p. 8-33, illustrations p. 52-55 Webster, Mary Hull. “Wings of Desire and Mark Bradford at the San Francisco Art Institute.” Artweek, April, p. 19-20 Zellen, Jody, “Andrea Bowers’ Spectacular Appearances at the Santa Monica Museum of Art”, Fall, volume 1 number 3, p. 22
1997 I’m Still In Love with You (exhibition catalog), Twentieth Century Women’s Club Greene, David A. “Hot Coffee”, Frieze, issue 43, May, p. 76 Pagel, David. “Voyeur’s Paradise at Santa Monica Place.” Los Angeles Times, December 19, p. F33 Saltz, Jerry. “Regular—No Sugar.” Time Out New York, issue 75, February 27-March 6, p. 40 Schjeldahl, Peter. “La-la Band.” Village Voice, February 18
1996 Darling, Michael. “Box Tops.” Santa Barbara News, February 2
1995 Baker, Kenneth. “Taking Art Into Their Own Hands.” San Francisco Chronicle, June 2 Craddock, Sacha, London Times, April 5 Darling, Michael. “‘Pretty’ at FOOD HOUSE.” Artweek, March, p. 38-39 Feaver, William. “Smart Habits and Sharp Practice.” London Observer, April 23 Greene, David S. “Andrea Bowers.” Art Issues, no. 36, January/February, p. 41 Kent, Sarah. “Art Review.” Time Out, April, p. 51
1994 Davidson, Leanne Alexis. “Three Day Weekend.” Real Life Magazine, no. 23, illustrations p. 35-36
1993 Crosby, Gregory. “The Professor’s Guide to Vegas Kulcher.” SCOPE, October Devine, Rory. “Heaven Missing.” Picture Book #4 Frank, Peter. “Picks of the Week.” LA Weekly, August 27, p. 131 1992 Heartney, Eleanor. “The Imp of the Perverse.” ARTnews, September Jarrell, Joe. “Reviews.” Sculpture, September/October Jones, Amelia. Public and Private Pleasures.” Art Issues, September/October Pagel, David. “Art Review.” Los Angeles Times, March 20 Rugoff, Ralph. “Sex Objects.” LA Weekly, April 2-8 Selwyn, Marc. “FOOD HOUSE: LA’s Newest Alternative Space.” Flash Art, November/December Pagel, David, “Window on LA” (LA Art Fair Catalogue)
Public Collections
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center, Los Angeles, CA Artspace, San Antonio, TX Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC Ingvild Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, TX National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
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Museum Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach, Germany Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Orange County Museum of Art. Newport Beach, CA Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA Rennie Collection, Vancouver, Canada San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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